#pluscachange — Public Fediverse posts
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"Dès l’Antiquité, on trouvait que "c’était mieux avant""
#CétaitMieuxAvant #Antiquité #Pareil #MêmeChose #PlusÇaChange ... L'idéalisme de base !
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"Before Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez, there was #CiprianoCastro. Before Donald Trump, there was Theodore Roosevelt. And before petroleum, there was asphalt pitch. The following excerpt from #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World is a timely reminder that behind today’s headlines announcing any given crisis in #LatinAmerica often stands a long history of imperial outrages."
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/venezuela-tar-wars/
#Venezuela #USimperialism #LatinAmericanHistory #plusÇaChange #books @bookstodon -
'Washington, inundated with protests, had become a “besieged city,” wrote Henry Kissinger [...] In the moment, few activists could have imagined their resistance was having such dramatic effects. But time showed that their actions had set the stage for #Nixon’s eventual political downfall.'
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-chorus-of-defiance/
#USpol #PeaceMovement #AntiwarMovement #stateRepression #VietnamWar #BombingOfCambodia #ThirdIndochinaWar #NixonTrumpParallels #PlusÇaChange #activism #protest -
"I fear these tory radicals, these out of place patriots (or parrots) who are so loud in their insults against the present ministry, only want to make paddles of the people to sail into their harbours of old sinecures and then to be again themselves they will be as silent of suffering people and all such alusions—as an old maid of her age or an old borough monger of common honesty." - John Clare